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Start Date: 10-Apr-1973 4:45 PM

End Date: 10-Apr-1973 5:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Devine, Samuel L.[Unknown person(s)]Eisenhower, [Dwight] David, II

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

426-042.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Samuel L. Devine, unknown person(s), and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 5:59 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-042 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 426-42

Date: April 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:45 pm and 5:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Samuel L. Devine.

       President’s appreciation
             -Executive Office Building [EOB] office


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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                              Tape Subject Log
                                               (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                                           Conversation No. 426-42 (cont’d)


        [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
             -Congressional candidacy
                    -Discharge from Naval Service
                    -Residency question
                          -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s property in Maryland
                               -Rental of property in Congressional district
                          -Maryland, Washington, DC
                               -White House
                               -Problem
                               -Rental
                                      -Rebozo’s house

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                                   -White House
                                         -Criticism
                                   -Apartment compared to Rebozo’s house
                       -Other job prospects
                            -Interest in national security
                            -Officer candidate school
                            -George A. Goodling’s office
                       -Goodling
                            -Candidacy
                                   -Announcement
                                   -Other opponents
                       -Other job prospects
                            -Capitol Hill
                                   -Goodling’s office
                            -Conference [?] committee compared to campaign committee
                                   -Travel
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                              Conversation No. 426-42 (cont’d)


                          -Devine’s talk with Robert H. Michel
                                 -Financial contribution
                   -Announcement of candidacy
                          -Goodling’s decision
                   -Speaking engagements
                          -David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                                 -Format
                                 -Republican clubs
                   -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s role
                   -Public speaking
                          -Tricia Nixon Cox
                                 -Compared to president
                                       -Gestures
                          -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                                 -Humility, warmth
                   -Devine’s support
                   -Strategy
                          -Hugh Scott’s, Clifford L. Jones’s [Pennsylvania Republican State
Chairmen] advice
                   -Residency issue
                   -Other job prospects
                         -Devine’s conversation with Michel
                               -David Eisenhower’s knowledge of political campaigns
                                    -Letter to New York Times
                                    -Writing skills
                               -Goodling

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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 4:58
pm.

[Conversation No. 426-42A]

       Request that David Eisenhower come to EOB office

[End of telephone conversation]
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                             Conversation No. 426-42 (cont’d)




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        David Eisenhower’s employment
             -Devine’s conversation with Michel
             -Congressional committee staff
                    -Jealousy
                    -President’s role
             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                    -Work in the White House
             -Family
                    -Daughters
                          -Husbands

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        Congress
             -Budget cuts

David Eisenhower entered at 4:58 pm.

        Congress
             -Budget cuts
                  -Defense
                  -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
             -Devine
                  -Leadership position in the House of Representatives
                        -Conservatives
                        -Public regulators, mainstream
                        -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                  -Voting record
                        -Support for the President's administration
                              -Vietnam War
                  -Vote on sustaining veto
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                            Conversation No. 426-42 (cont’d)


                        -[Rural water and sewer grant program]
                        -Vacational rehabilitation
                              -Senate


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       David Eisenhower’s plans
            -Devine and Goodling
                  -Conversation with President
            -Devine’s conversation with Eisenhower
                  -Goodling’s decision
            -Work in Goodling’s office
                  -Goodling’s announcement
            -President’s role
            -Devine and Eisenhower’s conversation in adjacent office
                  -Other job prospects
                  -Residency
            -Congressional campaign
                  -Goodling’s plans
                        -Announcement
                  -George H. W. Bush’s role
                  -Hugh Scott’s viewpoint

       President’s schedule

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Devine and Eisenhower left at an unknown time before 5:59 pm.